Old School Ganguro Wearing Alba Rosa in Shibuya

Shooting street fashion is a lot like hunting. You’re always prowling around the city hoping to capture (on your camera only, of course) something rare and amazing. Well, in 2011, there are few things more rare (or amazing) than a real live Ganguro! So, when we were running errands in Shibuya and saw this silver-haired Ganguro crossing the Shibuya 109 intersection with a Center Guy in pink braids, we dropped everything we were doing and went into Hunter Mode.

Luckily for us, this Ganguro Girl and Center Guy both turned out to be really friendly. Not only did they agree to let us snap a few quick photos, but they also stopped and let random school kids and other passersby take pictures as well. In old school Ganguro style, they were both wearing fashion from the famous-in-Shibuya Japanese brand Alba Rosa. Besides Alba Rosa, the girl was also wearing a couple of Ayumi Hamasaki necklaces and sporting several different facial piercings.

The only way to experience just how awesome these characters were is just to check out the images. And we highly recommend that you click on each of the pictures to see them in high resolution for the full effect!

Neither one of them are cross dressing Hanamarie, and for the others who condemn them – I’m honestly not sure what you are doing on a website that explores the highly varied world of Japanese fashion if you don’t like extremes.

I’m all for alternative Japanese fashion but I find ganguro a little hard to understand. Probably partly my natural aversion to fake tan. It’s not that the style is too weird, I just think it’s a very unflattering look!

I am getting used to the style. Its a question of time to get all understood. But, as a westerner, I am still like in a super soup of fun, chic and crazy stuff all mixed and blended in an unique way. A revolutionary way of making fashion. Compared with what I was used to love in Japanese costume tradition, this “new”, (not so new for you) style feels like a bomb eliminating all sort of conservatism, conformism and boredom. I will get where you are in your minds!!! I hope so! But how much I love kimonos too!!!

they aren’t “ganguros”. they’re both manba, although the boy (Hideo) has graduated, and the girl (Gehako) is soon to graduate from manba.
Hideo and Gehako both still wear very awesome, outrageous manba outfits, and they both used to wear tsuyome manba.
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